Monthly Archives: October 2012

Enjoy a nice, long set by Kelly Hogan when she kicks off her headlining tour on November 29 in Madison, WI. Other lucky cities include Cleveland, Toronto, Northampton, Boston, NYC, Philly, Geneva, NY, D.C. and Charleston, WV for Mountainstage. Click On Tour for the deets and dates.

Photographer Vicky Moon moved from city to city as a kid, never getting too attached … until she moved to Los Angeles. She fell in love with the place, shooting at all hours of day and night.

“I wanted to shoot at night because I feel that L.A. changes
drastically from night to day. There’s this quietness that L.A. has when
it’s dark that is really nice,” she says. “It’s like you can finally
have a conversation with the city without having to shout.”

From those night excursions comes “Expired L.A.,”
Moon’s latest photography project. Using strictly expired film for her
4x5 camera (and no photoshop), Moon collected images of old storefronts
and neon signs that show a less glamorous side of the city.

Would you like to see Lynda Barry and Matt Groening give a talk at BAM (Brooklyn Acadmey of Music) about love, hate and comics? (Also known as the friendship that would not die! ) (because it has lasted since 1977!)

A gorgeous INSECT ALPHABET - fonts and bugs, two of my favorite things at once.

archiemcphee: Romanian freelance illustrator and designer Paula Duță spent 2 years working on this awesome Insect Alphabet. Each beautifully detailed letter is made of a different insect or arachnid, carefully rendered on paper using colored pencils. We love how the insects are often depicted on the sorts of plants where they’d be found in nature or exhibiting behaviors unique to their species, like Dung Beetle whose dung ball form the tittle on the letter i.